Who Verifies the Benchmark? Decentralizing Trust in Large Language Model Evaluation

arXiv:2608.07762 · cs.AI, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

Sahil Pardasani, Madhusudan Singh

cs.AI, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-11

Comments: Accepted to International Conference on Quantum Enhanced AI and Secure Computing (QASC2026)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Human-Robot Interaction — 1× in this paper
• Papers — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Play Favorites: A Statistical Method to Measure Self-Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge
• InfiCoEvalChain: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Framework for Collaborative LLM Evaluation
• Uncovering Political Bias in Large Language Models using Parliamentary Voting Records
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI

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